{"id":3058,"date":"2015-01-14T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T12:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:11:01","slug":"10-little-known-facts-about-virginia-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/10-little-known-facts-about-virginia-woolf\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Little Known Facts About Virginia Woolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/virginia-woolf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3045\" alt=\"virginia woolf\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/virginia-woolf.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/virginia-woolf.jpg 520w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/virginia-woolf-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/virginia-woolf-190x123.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/virginia-woolf-280x181.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/virginia-woolf-445x288.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Virginia Woolf \u2014 most know the name, but few know the obscure biographical facts behind the name. Below are 10 little known facts about the troubled writer.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Woolf once said that her death would be the \u201cone experience I shall never describe.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">When Woolf taught at Morley College, she made her students write essays about themselves.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theenglishgarden.co.uk\/polopoly_fs\/1.3343548!\/image\/597777898.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_490\/597777898.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"489\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Woolf in her garden at Monk House<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For a summer, she went mad believing that the birds were chirping in Greek and King Edward VII was saying curses from behind a nearby bush.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Woolf was a difficult shopper, often arguing with shopkeepers over what products they had for sale and what products she imagined they should have for sale.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/virginiawoolfblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/LeonardWoolfVirginiawoolf.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"362\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonard and Virginia Woolf<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After getting married, Woolf thought she should learn some domestic skills, so she enrolled in a school of cookery. Shortly after, she accidentally baked her wedding ring in a pudding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Before Woolf was even 7 years old, her mother, Julia, was teaching her Latin, French, and History.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/interestingliterature.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/woolf2.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"399\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Anthony Buxton, Guy Ridley, Horace Cole<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Woolf and five of her male friends once received a 40-minute tour of the British battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought with the ship\u2019s commander after painting their faces black, dressing in robes, and presenting themselves as the Prince of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and his entourage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Woolf first tried to kill herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of a window. The window she jumped from, however, was not high enough to cause serious harm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/bb3774b46482a2f641f48d016fd5ca3e\/tumblr_n07zhm5Oxh1rvesteo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in 1924<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When Woolf asked T.S. Eliot at a particular dinner party to define his belief in God, Eliot did not answer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who together ran the Hogarth Press, received the manuscript of the first chapters of James Joyce\u2019s <i>Ulysses<\/i>, they turned it down for publication because it was impossible to print the entire book on their handpress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Interested in learning more about Virginia Woolf through her writing?<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/bestsellers\/orlando-a-biography\/#\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9780141184272.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Orlando: A Biography<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Author: Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 9780141184272<\/p>\n<p>Price: 24,5 GEL<\/p>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/bestsellers\/orlando-a-biography\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/bestsellers\/between-the-acts\/#\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9780141184524.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>Between the Acts<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Author: Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">ISBN: 9780141184524<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Price: 24,5 GEL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/bestsellers\/between-the-acts\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/penguin-books\/the-common-reader\/#\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9780141389899.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Common Reader<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Author: Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 9780141389899<\/p>\n<p>Price: 14,9 GEL<\/p>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/penguin-books\/the-common-reader\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/penguin-books\/a-room-of-ones-own\/#\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9780141018980.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>A Room of One\u2019s Own<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Author: Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">ISBN: 9780141018980<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Price: 14,9 GEL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/penguin-books\/a-room-of-ones-own\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Woolf \u2014 most know the name, but few know 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